The Sun that comes from the Earth

What is alchemy? Is it a science? Indeed, it is the science of art intended to make gold. This is a very primitive response, but has the advantage of not containing any accuracy. It is clear the question: What is gold? Gold is currently the value-pattern our money, the economy hub of a consumer society. So what is this gold which is hidden behind the values created by a capitalist civilization? Is it something more than a self-suggestion that enslaves man?

When gold was extracted from the earth for the first time, more than five thousand years ago, it was something sacred. It was the sun of the earth, and the sun was God. The sun and moon were the eyes of the Egyptian god Horus, who was the son of Ra, the sun god. But the Egyptian kings were sons of Ra, then, Horus was the brother of the King of Egypt, and even at times, it was identified with that. It is therefore not surprising that the king put his hand on the sun that came from the black earth, and that the formula for making gold was a secret of the priests. Until the Middle Ages, the ratio of the value of the two precious metals, was set in accordance with the cycles of the two celestial bodies. Even the round shape of the gold and silver refers to its celestial models. The oldest coins show signs related to the sun and its annual cycle.

The noble nature of gold, the earthly and the heavenly, was something irrefutable for the alchemists. Following the Egyptian traditions began to develop their science in the first centuries after Christ. According to the concepts of the time, what did the alchemists, was an exact science. They based their principles on the Aristotelian doctrine, according to which all the bodies were only phenomenal forms of the same subject. It was therefore quite possible to transform a commodity into another. This principle seemed to reach

Similarly it happened in the early decades of this century with the possibility of splitting the atom. The teaching of the theory of relativity. The principles of Aristotelian natural science were in place until near the end of the fifteenth century. This is the fundamental reason that alchemy is kept current for long. Alchemy then, is based on a wealth of experience inherited from antiquity and referred to the working of metals and alloys, as well as the production of artificial gemstones.

Throughout the Middle Ages experimental work they went ahead, giving rise to modern chemistry.

Paracelsus (1493-1541) was the first to define human life as a chemical process. So said the need to overcome by chemical procedures flaws in the process that saw the causes of disease. Anyone who today accepts taking a pill or using some chemical in their body is actually accepting the theory of the alchemist Paracelsus.

Freemasonry seeks gold inside and found in human perfection. This is the comparative and complementarity between the spiritual and material values contained in a single philosophical scientific concept: Alchemist convinced that God only trust this secret who had reached the highest degree of human perfection.

Anothercoincidentalreasonforthesetwoschoolsactingatdifferenttimesofasamecivilizationhasallowedthemthroughtheages,preservingasameconcern:thesearchoflight,oftruthandlife,thatindividuallyrevealtheeternalknowledgeandbemanifestedthroughus,becomeimpulseandfactorofallprogress.TheoriginofFreemasonryisalsosinkingintimesinwhichhistoricaldatacombineandconfusewiththetraditionandthealchemicallegend.It isnecessary to gobacktotimesasfar awayasEgyptancientandprimitivetofindtracesofthefirststepsofoneandanother,andthatoverthecenturieshadbecomeaninheritanceitself,atleastifwelookatthesignificanceofsymbolsandtheirinnumerablerituals,spiritualandmoraldoctrineswhichhasbeenrefined through the centurie